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Poster: SaintSteveg Date: Aug 29, 2012 6:29am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead.net redesign

A web site is like a shark - if you don't keep moving you die. As a web designer who certainly doesn't know it all, I know this - you cannot please everybody, especially those opinionated enough to post on a topic like this. One of the biggest challenges with a content-heavy site like dead.net is making everything easy to navigate right on the front page without being too cluttered, and I think they've done an OK job at that. The esthetics are subjective, but I like it.

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Poster: AltheaRose Date: Aug 29, 2012 11:19am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead.net redesign

Hey, first post! Are you the designer? If so, I like the frame thing. Welcome :-)

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Poster: SaintSteveg Date: Aug 29, 2012 12:28pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead.net redesign

Thanks for the welcome, but no I didn't design the dead.net site. Just, as a designer, I guess I tend to be rather forgiving of what the final result is based on knowing all that goes into it.

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Poster: AltheaRose Date: Aug 29, 2012 6:14pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: Dead.net redesign

Including the clients, right? My critique is really about that. I mean, it's not like they handed it to some individual designer guy and then said "OK" later. There had to be tons of meetings.

And then, really, going live with inconsistent font? And the missing set lists for, hmmm, here's a random check, 2/25/66, 10/12/68, 2/11/69 (which has been released, for chrissakes), the Ark shows in April '69 ...

On 4/22/69 there's a note: "Carnival tuning before Doin That Rag." But no set list. Someone in the comments asks in 2009 if anyone has a set list. Someone else POSTS it in 2010. But Deadnet couldn't manage to get a set list on for 3 years? Even during the redesign? That's the kind of thing I find kind of mind-boggling. It's not exactly a small operation, and that's definitely not the fault of the designer ...

Uh, maybe they need interns to load set lists? Heck, outsource it already. I'll volunteer my teenager :-)